One Britain, One Nation?
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What started out as a community project with local schoolchildren has garnered an official endorsement and countless memes. It has also sparked a national conversation
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The current government has been keen to centralise but has seen the value of local support during the pandemic.
A campaigner calls for change back in 2018.
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A year since the law was changed, women were still not getting access to abortion services.
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There is talk of delay, but the Scottish parliament has been working since last year to make sure this vote can be held safely.
Rishi Sunak brandishes his spending review.
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Local authorities are on the front line of the coronavirus crisis but London continues to hold the purse strings.
How’d you figure that, Boris?
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It might not have been good for Johnson, but things seem to be working out well for Scottish workers.
Andy Burnham has been in a war of words with central government.
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History shows that revenge is a dish often served cold in Westminster.
Andy Burnham is threatening legal action against central government over lockdown measures in Manchester.
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Tensions between regional leaders and central government have reenergised a devolution debate.
Scotland isn’t up for a no-deal Brexit.
Brexit could leave key sectors struggling and the devolved administrations have little power to do anything about it.
Scottish and Welsh 16 and 17-year-olds can vote while their peers across the border are still disenfranchised.
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There needs to be fair and equal voting rights for young people in England and Northern Ireland.
Prime minister Boris Johnson with deputy first minister Michelle O'Neil, first minister Arlene Foster and Northern Ireland secretary Julian Smith.
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A new deal has been signed that seeks to encourage Sinn Fein and the DUP to work together.
Demonstrators in Scotland make their feelings toward Boris Johnson known.
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The £300m extra funding apparently bypasses the official block funding mechanism that has been in operation since devolution.
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The independence movement is growing in Wales but it’s not clear whether it would be able to go it alone.
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British is an imperial term, not a national one.
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Social mobility is linked to geography in the UK – and local leaders should be tasked with boosting it.
Devolving power and resources from the centre to the counties was a key pillar of Kenya’s 2010 referendum vote.
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In many counties, there are new health centres, roads and street lights that wouldn’t be there without devolution.
Nicola Sturgeon and Theresa May.
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Scotland’s decision to reject the Brexit Bill may herald a national constitutional crisis.
Various regions in England go to the polls on May 3 but do they have enough power to change things?
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London remains incredibly dominant over the UK regions in terms of financial and legislative decision-making.
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African cities are failing to raise development funds through bond markets.
Scottish parliament with Calton Hill in the background.
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Scotland voted for its own parliament in September 1997, but has yet to make its mind up about the biggest issue of all.